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Name Not On Your List

by Laura (guest)

7/30/2002, 2:22 AM

My mother's name and also my middle name is Minette. It is french. Can u tell me what it is by any chance? Thank You.

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- Anneza (guest)

7/31/2002, 1:15 AM

A most wonderful children's book - The Little White Horse, by Elizabeth Goudge - has a character called Minette; in her case it's a pet form of Maria.

- Lissa (guest)

7/30/2002, 1:35 PM

Perhaps Minette is a French form of Minetta, which is the German nickname for Mina and Wilhelmina.

- Pavlos (guest) +2

7/30/2002, 7:12 AM

The other meaning of minette (PA is suggested)

With all due respect, "minette" is also French slang for cunnilingus
(http://www.chez.com/bernie/sx_slang.htm)

- Dilys (guest)

8/18/2002, 7:06 AM

Really? As a Belgian living in Paris, never heard that one. Although Minette is originally the female of Matou, a street tomcat. Minou is also used as slang for the female sex, and minette refers, not to cunnilingus, but to a rather dolled-up young girl. Quite negative. Avoid.

- Le Petit Dahveed (guest)

7/30/2002, 8:17 PM

Ah, Monsieur Pavlos -- as always, a way wiz words. You are truly zee mastair of zee cunning lingo!!

- Satu (guest) +1

7/30/2002, 3:41 AM

Minette

Hi Laura,
I found Minette as a French pet form for the name Guillemette which comes (via Guillermine) from the German name Wilhelmine. That's the feminine version of the Germanic name Wilhelm and it means "will, determination" + "protection".
Satu

- Rosey (guest)

7/30/2002, 6:43 AM

I think it is used as a pet form in France of "Mignonette" which I think means small and sweet.

Hope this helps,

Rosey

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